Re: wrt 'Make doc crashing on my PC'

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Petr Gajdos" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 11:07 AM
> Subject: Re: wrt 'Make doc crashing on my PC'
>
>> that reason at least on my machine. It seems to me therefore that 2.17.18
>> do not expose the issue but 2.17.19 does.
>
>
> That stacks up well with my earlier investigations.  Git besect
> identified 35d5f2e2ff40e0bd35cf00f22c2428eac354e566 as the first bad
> commit, and that commit occurred between 17.18 and 17.19.  That's some
> scheme, so I don't understand how it would make the system crash.
>
> However, I can only get a crash when I run make doc, so wasn't 100%
> sure this was really the cause.  Also, I believe I tried a revert of
> the commit, and it didn't fix it either.  I guess it's possible it was
> a set of commits that cause the problem.

Well, it's clearly the set of commits centered around issue 3330.  Now
it would be really a step backwards to revert all that.  The problem
will occur now because orchestra.ly causes a stencil to be created that
is either

a) actually defective/inconsistent data
b) triggering code unable to deal with all conceivable proper stencils

Since the given redefined command is used a _lot_, it would appear that
case a) is unlikely to have resulted only in orchestra.ly problems.  So
I pretty much expect this to be a case of b).

-- 
David Kastrup